Food and Drink

Transdisciplinary theme

How we interact

Theme description

Inquiry into systems of interaction between scientific, technological, and social activities by which people and cultures share and enjoy friends, creativity, time, place; impact on the living world, natural environment, and mental health.

Central idea

1 We can choose to eat and drink to be healthy.

Lines of inquiry

1 healthy and unhealthy food the same with drink
2 test of water in Japan and I will see if it is clean

Issue of global significance

1 Starvation

Service Action

1 I did a water test in japan to see if it was clean or not and it was quit clean.

Collaboration

Submitted field trip activity report to Principal.

Exhibition blog posts

Reflection videos

24 Feb

28 Feb

7 March

14 March

21 March

6 April

8 April

11 April

18 April

25 April

Individual Action

I baked cupcakes and shared with Mr Miller. It is unhealty because there is much suger, cheese, butter in it.

Academic Disciplines Applications

Language

1 Essay (rubric)
2 Speech (self-assessment rubric)

3 I asked the people that came to my Exhibition to write down there favorite food and after I made a chart about it.

Mathematics

1 Measured and calculated to prepare to build presentation displays (video) 25Feb2014

Social Studies

1 I will research how many people dies every year of starving, hunger and thirst.

Science

1 I took water tests in Japan and see if it is clean.

Arts

1 I made a nutrition plate about healthy food and junk food.

Conceptual Applications

Form

1 I watched a movie called Super size and I learn how your body feel after 30 days of eating Mc Donalds.


"I watched the movie Super size me and it is about a man that’s eat Mc Donalds for breakfast, lunch, dinner for 30 days. He’s beginning weight was 84 kg and he had three doctors that he needed to go to once a week I think it was and see how much his weight was and stuff and his doctor said that he needed to go at least 5000 steps every day. After 3 weeks he started to feel bad and when he didn’t ate Mc Donalds he had headache but when he started to eat he was feeling better. After the 30 days he gained 11 kg. His feeling was depressed and exhausted nearly the whole time. His body fat from the start 11% and after 18%. His liver turned in to fat. His chance to get heart diseases expressed x2. In 30 days he had eat nearly 14 kg of sugar and 0.453592 kg every day. He had been eating 5 kg of fat after 30 days."

Function

1 How the life work with out food.

Change

1 My speech was about to change the people to eat more healthy food

Connection

1 In my speech I talked about the connection between starving people and people that trash food.
"In some countries kids are starving but in some country for example in Sweden swedish people trash people for 124,000 of Yen every year."

Causation

1 In my speechI talked about diseases caused by unhealthy food for example heart diseases and diabetes.

"It is also good to eat balanced diet to avoid obesity, heart diseases and diabetes for example."

Perspective

1 People thinks different but I wanted to change them so they think the should eat healthy and drink healthy

Responsibility

1 The responsibility in my speech was this:
"2.6 million of children dies every year because of hunger and thirst and between 13 to 18 million people dies every year because of starving."

Reflection

1 I changed my speech and essay 3 times and changed very much.

Skills Applications

Thinking Skills

1 creating: I'm creating posters

2 metacognitation: When I made the essay I was writing my opinions but the I deleted it.
3 evaluation: In my speech I wanted to change the peoples mind to eat healthier.

Communication Skills

1 reading: I was writing when I maked the essay and speech
3 listing: I was listing to Videos that can help me in the exhibition

Social Skills

1 respecting other: I respect starving people because I am very thin too.

2 accepting responsibilities: When we worked on the Exhibition we didn't get any help.
3 cooperating: when I did the water test I got help from the hole class even the teacher so we can probably say we cooperating.

Research Skills

1 planning: before I started the posters I maked a sketch.

2 collecting data: When I researched I collected data
3 organizing data: The data a got from websites a organized in my speech and essay.

Self-Management Skills

1 organization: I organized my exhibition because I made like my stuff by my self


2 time management: I finished the thing that I was going to do until the Exhibition day.
3 healty lifestyle: I wrote about it in my essay and speech

Attitudes Applications

1 creativity: I was creative when I created my posters because I printed picture of junk food or healthy food or drink and then I drawed Healthy drinks for example and then cut it out and glued it to the poster.

2 independence: I have been Independence when I'am working on the Exhibition because we inquired in thinks that we think was important.

3 curiosity: I was curios of learning about healthy food and junk food same with drink that's why I was making my exhibition about that.
4 cooperation: I got help with the water test of my class so we cooperated.

5 enthusiasm: I was trying to make the people that came to my exhibition to eat more balanced.

Project Rubric

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